ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES 101 



CANNING 



CHANGES IN CANNERIES 



Comparatively few changes in operation or management of the 

 salmon canneries in Alaska took place in 1937. In southeast Alaska 

 the Burnett Inlet plant, formerly operated by the Alaska Pacific 

 Fisheries, but idle since 1930, was purchased and operated by a new 

 corporation, the Burnett Inlet Salmon Co. The Kasaan cannery of 

 the Pacific American Fisheries, taken over from the Northwestern 

 Fisheries Co. and idle since 1930, was also reopened. 



During the fall of 1936 and the spring of 1937 the Nakat Packing 

 Corporation replaced its cannery buildings at Waterfall and now has 

 there one of the finest canneries in southeast Alaska. The new 

 structures include a cannery building with power-house and machine 

 shop, a warehouse, store and office, carpenter shop, mess and bunk- 

 house, main dock, and walks and runways. The cost of construction 

 of this plant was approximately $145,000. 



In central Alaska the plant at Resurrection Bay formerly known as 

 the Seward Fisheries, Inc., was reopened and operated by Hagen & 

 Co., after having been closed for 2 years. The North Pacific Sea 

 Foods Co. completed and operated a new cannery at Swanport, about 

 one-half mile from the old cannery at Fort Liscum, which was de- 

 stroyed by fire in the fall of 1936. The Kadiak Fisheries Co. leased 

 the cannery of Shelikof Packing Co. at Zachar Bay and operated it in 

 addition to the plants at Kodiak and Shearwater Bay. The plant of 

 the Kustatan Packing Co. at Anchorage was purchased and operated 

 by the General Fish Co., Inc. The Northern Light Pacldng Co.'s 

 plant at Mountain wSlough, last operated in 1932, was taken over and 

 operated by L. Utness. 



The Naknek cannery formerly owned by Northwestern Fisheries 

 Co. and now belonging to the Pacific American Fisheries, Inc., which 

 had been closed down since 1931, was again put in operation. This 

 plant is located on the north shore of the Naknek River and is known 

 as the Nornek unit of Pacific American Fisheries, Inc. The com- 

 pany's Naknek plant is farther up the Naknek River and on the south 

 shore. Before the beginning of the fishing season the Bristol Bay 

 Packing Co. had completed one of the two new canneries which are 

 to replace the buildings lost by fire in 1936. The plant was operated 

 during the season with six lines of machinery. When the other can- 

 nery is completed, each will be a five-line plant. 



Joint operating arrangements were again carried on by a number of 

 companies having canneries in the same district, resulting in the 

 closure of several additional plants in the 1937 season. 



NEW CANNERIES 



There were two new floating plants in the Kodiak district — the 

 motor vessel Commander (282 tons), operated by Suryan's, Inc., in 

 Moser Bay, and a large scow operated by Frank McConaghy Co., Inc., 

 at Zachar Bay. Other new canneries were the Northern Fisheries, 

 Inc., at Ketchikan, and the Phillips Canning Corporation at Valdez, 

 Although the latter produced a small hand-packed output in each of 

 the years from 1934 to 1936, inclusive, it has not been included here- 

 tofore in the list of canneries. The Gulf Packing Co., at Cordova, 



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